THEME: The significance of symbol, colour and number in different cultures. The act of writing allows societies to transmit information and share knowledge. Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing – writing as an illegible, abstract and wordless mark making
INSPIRATION: The signs and symbols we create in order to communicate – iconographic symbols, mnemonics, graphemes, alphabets – all marks made on a surface in order to communicate or to express our oral language in one way or another. But these signs and symbols only communicate to someone who understands them or who can interpret these marks – to anyone else they are just unintelligible squiggles.
“I believe, somewhere in the pause between writing, seeing and feeling is the silent electric current found in the heart – the soundtrack of the human body. I think that asemic script is the manifestation of that inner wiring, and once tuned into it, one can hear the deep innate sentiment that everyday language doesn’t have the words for. Asemic writing is a prototype to express a deeper feeling”.
Sam Roxas-Chua
“A line is a dot that went for a walk”.
Paul Klee
UNSEEN POEM (Braille)
“My spirit has ways of seeing that my eyes cannot comprehend.”
Phillippe Benichou
“My eyes make pictures when they are shut.”
Samuel Coleridge
“You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision.”
Maxi Jazz
“Vision: the art of seeing the invisible.”
Jonathon Swift
“The true seeing is when there is no seeing.”
Shen Hui – Zen Master
‘Here is writing that is entirely open to the world, a poetry that generously refuses to delimit the human experience or accept what is known’. Sandra Alcosser”
Shen Hui – Zen Master
“A squiggle is a short line that curls and loops in an irregular way”.
Oxford Dictionary